Semantic interoperability of sensor data with volunteered geographic information: A unified model

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 766-796

  Bakillah, Mohamed ^a,b   Liang, Steve H L ^a   Zipf, Alexander ^b   Arsanjani, Jamal Jokar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Semantic interoperability; Semantic web; Sensor data; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907594174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi2030766     Document Type: Article

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